Round Up:

🚗 Hold onto your hats: Tesla announces it won’t close retail stores, and will go back and raise prices on its cars that it slashed (Tesla). (No change to $35,000 Model 3, no price hike until March 18th. Chaos! All ahead of the big March 14th Model Y reveal.)

📌 Foursquare wants to know how creepy you think its new ‘Hypertrending’ feature is (9to5Mac)

🆕 The other smartphone business: Out of the shadow of Android (TechCrunch).

🌊 How the internet travels across oceans: ‘People think that data is in the cloud, but it’s not. It’s in the ocean.’ (NY Times) - a very nice interactive feature.

🍟 NVIDIA joins Intel in bidding war for major Israeli chip maker (Engadget).

🔉 Over a quarter of US adults now own a smart speaker, with 60% owning an Amazon Echo (Voicebot.ai).